If I click 3D buildings- not all areas have it- but you can start to see that the buildings are starting to get a little bit of texture to them. One quick thing I will show you while I am in New York City is the 3D buildings. And it allows you to learn more about an area. There's many different things you can do there. And sometimes you'll see multiple photos from the same spot. So when you click on one of these little icons, you can get a photo. If I Click Photos, now I get all these little dots on my screen. If I click Places, now I start getting names of cities, names of geographical points like oceans, rivers, et cetera. And then if I add layers- for example, borders and labels- then I get state, and country borders, and of course the labels for what I'm looking at. So I'm going to take all layers off, so you can see what it looks like without the layers. You can put in the weather, all kinds of different things. Layers let you overlay the map with all kinds of different information from the roads to 3D buildings. The next thing I want to show you on the left-hand side of the screen are what are known as Layers. So use the Search engine up here in the upper left to quickly find things that you want to look for. And it will bring you directly to that spot. You can type in a full address if you know an exact address. And it'll immediately take me to that point. So if I type in something like Empire State Building, it knows what I'm talking about. So in the upper-left-hand side of your screen, here is the Search box. Because it is a Google product, Google excels in search. So I can zoom back out and get a clearer view of that area. I'm only 1,400 feet above the water slide. The closer I zoom in to a particular point, the more blurry you may find that the image becomes. So at the moment, we're 7,000 feet above this city. And then way over on the right-hand side, depending on how far you've zoomed in, you can see where you would be approximately in height. We have the exact coordinates of where we're pointing on this map right here, including the elevation of this particular point on the Earth. And it tells us that the image that we're currently looking at was taken in March of 2012. And we can look at the bottom left-hand side of this map. Some areas get a real high-resolution image. The clarity of the image depends on the resolution of the image based on that particular area. And then depending on the speed of your internet connection, if you just pause for a few seconds, you will notice that the image becomes clearer and clearer. You can see, when I zoom in, that the picture starts out blurry. You can scroll in or scroll out to zoom very quickly into an area. You can accomplish the same thing if you have a rotating mouse wheel on your mouse. Finally, this bottom tool is to zoom in and out of the location that you're looking at. I think it's easier to click and drag the Earth whatever direction you'd like it to move. Next, you can use the Move tool down below to rotate the Earth and orient it in right to left, up and down. You can rotate the Earth by rotating the compass. The one on the top is putting north at the top of the screen like a normal map. If you look over on the right-hand side, you've got a series of tools. When you're looking at the Earth here, you can click and drag the Earth, and orient it in any direction you'd like. They're usually between one and three years old. First, I wanted to clarify that, when you're using Google Earth and viewing the images that are created in Google Earth, they are not live images. PRESENTER: After you install Google Earth, you will be presented with this screen here and we're going to give you a quick overview today of how to use Google Earth.
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